26 Mar 2010 4:30 PM By Eileen White Read
PEACEMAKERS, Washington, DC

What if I said Jerusalem belongs to Christians?

Right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stirred up a hornet's nest of interreligious conflict this week with comments about Jerusalem - the city of holy sites belonging to three religious groups who trace their common ancestry to Abraham...

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26 Mar 2010 11:26 AM By Ori Nir

If Ben-Gurion were alive today, He would vote likud

26 March, 2010 by Yuval Karni Gestures, statements, negotiations-nothing will come of it in the end. That is the bottom line as far as Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Strategic Affairs Moshe (Bogi) Yaalon is concerned. The former Mapainik, who has...

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26 Mar 2010 11:20 AM By Hussein Ibbish

Israel as a Jewish State

WASHINGTON, DC - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting the Palestinians recognise Israel as, in his words, "the nation-state of the Jewish people," a new and problematic demand that raises serious questions about Israel's...

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26 Mar 2010 11:10 AM By Martin Indyk
ACTING VICE PRESIDENT AT THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE

Solving the Jerusalem problem

WASHINGTON, DC - Long after the humiliation of our vice president is forgotten, if not forgiven, and the president and secretary of State recommit themselves to the "rock solid" relationship with Israel, and the Israeli ambassador in Washington...

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26 Mar 2010 10:39 AM By Karin Kloosterman
JOURNALIST & BLOGGER BASED IN JAFFA,ISRAEL

A most charming recipe for peace and a feast

JAFFA - News accounts on CNN make it look like every Jew and Arab in Israel are mortal enemies. But in truth, tens of dozens of intentional coexistence projects are ongoing, started by Arab and Jewish friends as a means to break through the barriers of...

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26 Mar 2010 10:23 AM By Sarah Ozacky-Lazar
RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE VAN LEER JERUSALEM INSTITUT

Collective rights for the Arab citizens of Israel

JERUSALEM - According to a poll published at the beginning of the month, fifty-six percent of Jewish high school students in Israel believe Arabs cannot be elected to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) and forty six percent do not support civil equality...

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26 Mar 2010 10:00 AM By Rabia Terry Harris
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF THE MUSLIM FELLOWSHIP

The tragedy of monotheism

PHILADELPHIA - Everybody needs a tribe. One person alone faces a frighteningly big, sometimes brutal world. Even a family can be too small to deal with some challenges that come down the pike - while if family relationships are the only ones around, obsessive...

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26 Mar 2010 9:47 AM By MJ Rosenberg
FP SENIOR FELLOW, MEDIA MATTERS ACTION NETWORK

Heckuva job, AIPAC

I know what former President Bush would say if he had to comment on the results of AIPAC's conference this week. He would turn to Howard Kohr, its long time director, and say "heckuva job, Howie." AIPAC supposedly exists to promote US-Israel...

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25 Mar 2010 4:53 PM By Gregg Carlstrom

No crisis in Netanyahu's coalition

Yedioth Ahronoth quotes a bunch of unnamed "commentators" -- every journalist's best friend! -- who think Netanyahu's coalition government is about to collapse . So does an unnamed minister from the Labor party, who thinks Bibi will...

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25 Mar 2010 3:51 PM By Noam Sheizaf
FREELANCE JOURNALIST & EDITOR, Tel Aviv, Israel

Arrested for post Zionism

Pay close attention to this item. It doesn't seem like much, but it's an important one: Two international activists, Ariadna Jove Marti (Spain) and Bridgette Chappell (Australia), who are living in Bir Zeit in the West Bank (it's near Ramallah...

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25 Mar 2010 3:46 PM By Neal Ungerleider

Fox News’s suicide bomb breast implant hysteria

The Fox News Channel puts its political biases front-and-center. At the same time, it is generally considered a credible news source. So what happens when FNC promotes a dubious story that terrorists with exploding breast implants will take down airplanes...

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25 Mar 2010 3:36 PM By Bernard Avishai
PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY

AIPAC Agonistes

I confess feeling a twinge of pathos when I heard on radio this morning how Benjamin Netanyahu told his AIPAC audience in Washington that the Jewish people were building Jerusalem 3000 years ago, would continue doing so today, and then hearing the crowd...

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25 Mar 2010 2:30 PM By Didi Remez
FOUNDING MEMBER, YESH DIN, Israel

Searching for scapegoats, Netanyahu now tries to label Kadima a fifth-column

In May 2007, the current head of Israel's internal security agency, the General Security Service (GSS aka Shabak and Shin Bet), Yuval Diskin, unilaterally revolutionized his agency's mandate. Disken was responding to a request by Adalah to clarify...

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25 Mar 2010 2:25 PM By Daoud Kuttab

Netanyahu to endanger US soldiers for another year

During discussions in Washington between U.S. officials and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an important revelation surfaced. Under U.S. and international pressure to stop Jewish settlement activities in Arab East Jerusalem, Netanyahu...

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25 Mar 2010 7:28 PM By Osama Alsharif
CHIEF EDITOR,AD-DUSTOUR

Beyond the Arab league

Few in the Arab world are pinning great hopes on the outcome of the Arab summit, which will be held next week in the Libyan city of Sirt. To say that the annual assembly of Arab leaders will convene amid grave regional challenges would be an understatement...

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